June 21, 2009
I’m doing this without my editor’s approval, but hey! I’m feeling rebellious this evening.
Stay is the second book in the Dunham series. It is not entirely necessary for you to read The Proviso before you read Stay, but I do recommend it. Now, neither main character is an actual Dunham by blood or marriage, nor are they Mormons (shocker, I know, but there’s still plenty religion, money, politics, and sex), but there is a method to my madness in the series order. If you have read The Proviso, you might have (or not) picked up on a hint or two that these (very) minor characters might have rather . . . interesting . . . histories that were not explained.
Here’s the official back-of-book blurb:
At 12, Vanessa defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She’d hoped for a “thank you” from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town.
Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the five-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House.
Four hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she’d risked so much, the only man she ever wanted—
—the only man she can’t have.
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DECEMBER 14, 1994
“People versus Eric Niccolò Cipriani. Charges of statutory rape, sexual assault in the first degree, and forcible rape in the first degree.”
“Ms. Leventen, how does the defendant plead?”
“Not guilty.”
“Hilliard?”
“Remand, your honor. The victim is thirteen.”
“So ordered.”
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Without one’s editor’s approval???
Libertarians, I swear.
We’re incorrigible.
Mojo I can’t WAIT for this book, OMG OMG. And also… I love love love your new blog/site layout. It’s lovely.
And no, I haven’t been drinking anything haha. (I know I seem a little more high strung than normal.)
LOL! Thank you, Zoe. We’re really going to try hard to get it out in time for Christmas shopping. (That’s the goal, anyway!)
Dude asks for a definition of “Normal”
YAY, Well I’ll totally be buying a copy 😀
Zoe wonders if Dude always speaks of himself and his actions in the third person.
Sweet!
Kel is anxiously looking forward to reading Da Book.
Zoe notes a second person speaking of themselves in the third person and doesn’t realize that she herself is doing it too. She notes that there must be something in the water and looks suspiciously over at Mojo.
Not me. I very rarely speak in third person.
However, Dude is doing it because of yet another NOT FUNCTIONING function in this template. That is to say, if he wants to comment from a computer where I’m logged in to this blog, it won’t let him log me out so he can log in. And he can’t tell if I’m logged in or not.
He’s doing that in case he posts and it comes up with my name, to clarify that HE is speaking, and not I.
hmmm. This still does not explain the phenomena for Kel and Zoe.
Maybe I do have a certain . . . ah . . . mojo. Heh.
Actually Dude has been doing it since his first post here, and it wasn’t for the reason stated. Dude just happened to start doing it…and it kinda stuck.
Zoe thinks it’s funny and wants to do it too.
Dude thinks Zoe should only post in the 4th person.
Zoe spends the rest of the day trying to figure out if there is a such thing as “4th person” then she ponders for a moment if it’s like “fourth meal” at Taco Bell.